I painted my bedroom a couple of years ago and never quite got around to the closet. It started raining so yard work was out of the question. I had a fabulous 8 mile run and took a long nap, played some Everquest and still had plenty of daylight to take on a house project. There were quite a few reasons to do the closet.

There was a damp musty smell that we never got living in the Rockies.

The closet became a dumping ground for boxes and misc. items.

We still have clothes from the 80’s

It took me so much longer than I expected just to empty the darned thing. I piled some clothes up and they toppled and took out the bedroom lamp (which I got in 5 kinds of trouble for doing). Paul was incredibly unpleasant about the whole thing even though he didn’t have to lift a finger. Well, I had him remove the cover on the lighting fixture. He was pissy about having to walk around clothes for 18 hours. (18 hours!) I painted and re-washed EVERYTHING. It seemed sad to wash clean clothes. I reminded myself of when Paul moved in with me when I washed and dried everything 3 times to hopefully get all of the dander out. While the paint was drying I cleaned out a couple of kitchen draws and filled up the back of Paul’s truck with for the thrift store.

And now that everything is back and smells fresh, the closet is a source of pride of how WE are dejunking…

I had a dream last night that I was at the Washington Square Mall and had a run in with a couple of blonde brothers dressed in pink suits with pink bowties. When it was time to leave, I went to the parking garage to find they had stripped my (dream) scooter down to the engine and gas tank.

Actually the guys in my dream were nerds not geeks. There is a difference.

If you know what this picture is you were a geek in the 80′s. Even more so if it looks like a fun way to spend 30 minutes. I’m trying to get it to run on my powerbook. I’ve got it working pretty well but I don’t have a numeric keypad and need to see if I can map my home, page up, page down, and end keys.

Last week Paul and I went to Vancouver B.C. He needed company for the 7 hour drive. I had to promise not to shake KinderEggs at the border guards. We took our passports. Mine expires this summer, good riddance to that passport photo. I got it for a business trip to Mexico City when I worked as a defense contractor at ARINC. When I got it the year 2006 didn’t look like a year, so very abstract.

All of the buildings downtown are the same color. It is spooky and looks Sci-Fi. The 86 expo dome adds to the effect.
Canadian English is not exactly like American English. I don’t mean CHEQUE/CHECK or even being oot and aboot (out and about). The use & pace is quite different. We have an awkard time ordering food. Something about the cadance and the order you request things always seems awkard. The poor waitress will look at us funny. We don’t have accents and don’t look like Foreigners but have a terrible time of it.

We stayed at the Plaza 500 which had the most expensive and worst internet service I’ve ever had. As a side note, if someone offer’s you a Caesar, say No!.

We went up because Paul was providing ‘close protection’ for Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche’s Ruling Your World Workshop.

Paul got motivated to work on the garage. For my part I was really not interested at all. I felt compelled to go along with it because it seemed highly unlikely that we would every be both excited at the same time to work on it.

I am such a pack rat. Found all kinds of crazy things; My old tricycle license plate, debate trophies, etc. Loaded up the Truck with Goodwill offerings. I recycled my old exams and teacher evaluations from when I taught mathematics at Utah State University.

I found evidence that I am really a silly person. Here are some questions from the Exams I gave in 1990

Exam 3, Math 101, Winter 1990, Thompson

10. BYU Coded “Penny” finds it difficult to shave her massive legs. It usually takes her 115 minutes to accomplish this task. Because her roomate doesn’t want to wait for the bathroom for that long, she decides to help. Together the task is done in an hour and a half. If for some reason Penny was unconsious, and her roomate had to do it by herself, how long would it take?

Exam 4, Math 101, Spring 1990, Thompson

10. Greg and Roy ride their mountain bikes up Blacksmith Fork Canyon. They become lost. After wandering around for hours they come across a bunch of drunks around a campfire. The drunks agree to drive Greg and Roy home, a distance of 40 miles back to Logan. The drunks drove 15 miles, from the canyon to Hyrum, then Greg took over and drove to Logan 20 miles per hour faster. Driving time for the entire trip was 80 minutes. Find the drunks speed from the Canyon to Hyrum.

Final Spring 1990, Math 101, Thompson

19. Zoro likes to carve his trade mark “Z” into the bellies of evil doers. His “Z” is 4/3 times as high as it is wide. The local bad guy has the largest tummy in the province. If Zoro carves a 5 foot diagonal onto his stomach, how tall is the “Z”?